Made my first attempt at soldering the pins to the board last night, but didn't have any flux handy. Clock works intermittently, which I expected with how poor the solders were. Going to reattempt in a few days.

Well I bough my first 4runner last week.
1999 White 4x4 5speed E-locker with 268k miles
First thing I noticed was the clock wasn’t working. Pushed on it a little and it would intermittently work. Decided to try this mod and take the clock apart, the corner of the screen was all black. Someone was probably really pushing on it in the past. Decided to ditch the springs and solder the pins onto the board as per this thread.